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“Dashboard in a Day” summary: Date: Feb 12 2018 Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM City: Chicago, Illinois At Microsoft, they understand that in the current economic climate you are being asked to enhance your business by leveraging data to make critical business decisions in an efficient, precise and effective manner. Power BI…

While the Power KPI visual has been a necessary building block for us in the presentation of KPIs, by itself it doesn’t provide a scorecard layout. Some users, including executives, really wanted a tabular, scorecard style of KPIs. For this, we developed a second custom visual called Power KPI Matrix.…

One of the new features in Reporting Services 2017 is the new REST API. The announcement is here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlrsteamblog/2017/10/02/sql-server-2017-reporting-services-now-generally-available/ And the online documentation for the API is here: https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/microsoft-rs/SSRS/2.0 Interestingly, the new API seems to be OData compliant – which means you can browse it in Power BI/Get&Transform/Power Query and build your…

Hello All, As you may or may not know the cloud has had PowerBi for a while now and it has been a great success at data visualization creating powerful dashboards and helping people make informed decisions every day. And now we have PowerBi moving on-prem with the PowerBi Report…

Data is at the heart of Power BI. Whenever you’re exploring data, creating charts and dashboards, asking questions with Q&A, all of those visualizations and answers you see are really getting their underlying data from a dataset. But where does that dataset come from? Well, from a data source. In…

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have; here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying data in relational databases, though with proprietary extensions among the products. The ease and…